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Women Telephone Workers on Strike Photo Archive Showing Women Picketing Being Arrested and Voting on Strike Action 1945-50

1945réf. 233441945. Women's LaborUnion Organizing Women telephone workers on strike press photo archive documenting labor organization picket lines arrests and union settlement efforts in New York Brooklyn Chicago Seattle St. Louis and Cleveland 1945-1950. The images illustrate the postwar labor conflict in the American telephone industry as women workers fought for better wages pensions union recognition and working conditions. The group records labor action through formal union voting publicity picketing mass walkouts police intervention and settlement. The archive highlights women at the center of the labor organizing process showing the workforce that staffed operator positions and other telephone company roles acting collectively during the major strike wave that followed World War II. Photo archive of 9 silver gelatin press photographs ranging from 6 x 7 to 8 x 10 inches New York Brooklyn Chicago Seattle St. Louis Cleveland and related U.S. locations 194New York5-1950. The photographs show women carrying and preparing strike placards leaving telephone company headquarters in a St. Louis walkout gathering on broad city steps with signs lining sidewalks outside company buildings sitting with placards reading "N.F.T.W. ON STRIKE" and smiling from inside a police wagon after arrest on an Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers picket line. Several images preserve highly specific labor text: placards call for "$12 per week" a "Union Shop" and a "Decent Pension" while another denounces the "union busting tactics of the Bell System." One image shows a woman tearing up a strike placard beside a noticeboard stating that the FLLTW and the company had reached an agreement and that the proposed strike had been called off. Versos retain typed caption strips credit and usage stamps editorial markings and filing notes identifying scenes such as a New York vote on whether traffic employees of the New York Telephone Company would strike on April 16 1945; Brooklyn strike cancellation at American Telephone and Telegraph on March 7 1946; Chicago women preparing picket signs on April 5 1947; Seattle workers and pickets outside a telephone building on April 7 1947; coffee served to women strike pickets at St. Alphonsus Hall that same evening; and later Cleveland newsroom handling marked November 10 1950. These photographs date to a time of broad labor upheaval of the mid 1940s and early 1950s when wartime employment rising prices and postwar contract battles pushed workers across the United States into repeated strikes. The telephone industry depended heavily on women as operators traffic workers and clerical employees and this archive shows those women as the visible organizers voters and public faces of labor activism in one of the country's largest communications networks. The images document five years of telephone strikes across several cities and through multiple stages of escalation and resolution. Moderate edge wear scattered creasing surface handling wear editorial markings stamps caption remnants and some toning or staining to versos; overall good condition. A concise multi-city record of women's labor militancy in the postwar telephone industry with strong evidence of how strike action operated inside a national communications system. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis885,00 $US≈ 789,12 €

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Women Telephone Workers on Strike Photo Archive Showing Women Picketing Being Arrested and Voting on Strike Action 1945-50

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis885,00 $US≈ 789,12 €

Poem by Mark StrandBiblio.com

Woodcuts by Alice Leora Briggs THE ROOM

2016réf. 142375Limited to 24 copies of which this is one of 14 deluxe portfolios. A fine copy of this magnificent portfolio illustrating Strand's poem written in 1990. Twelve chine collé woodcuts and three letterpress pages interleaved with Kitakata Japan paper housed in a linen clamshell box with constructed inner folder. Each woodcut signed by Briggs colophon signed by Briggs and Strand. Colophon bears Roman numeral unique number for the each of the 14 portfolios. The cloth covered portfolio box inner chemise folder and letterpress pages were designed by Alice Leora Briggs and Kelly Leslie. Portfolio box and folder were constructed by Jace Graf of Cloverleaf Studios Austin Texas. From the artist's website: "Alice Leora Briggs born in an oil boomtown in West Texas grew up in Idaho's Snake River Valley and woke up later on la frontera the borderlands of the U.S. and México. Her investigations into human frailties have generated thousands of drawings woodcuts letterpress broadsides site-specific installations and books. Her artworks have been featured in over fifty solo exhibitions and are in over thirty-five public collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Library of Congress Oxford's Bodleian Library and Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Publications include Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez 2010 an illuminated manuscript-police blotter with writer Charles Bowden The Room 2016 a suite of twelve woodcuts with poet Mark Strand and Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon 2022 with photojournalist Julián Cardona. Briggs was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Slovakia and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020." Austin TX: Flatbed Press 2016. Briggs Alice Leora. The box measures 25.25 x 21.75 x 1.375 inches. Individual prints interleaved with Japan Kitakata paper. Flatbed Press